One could argue that ISBD punctuation and abbreviations are more relevant today. Think of twitter. At times, it's almost like deciphering a different language all together (really... i suppose it is a different language.) If anything, it certainly shows that symbols and brevity are the way people think and write to convey information. If we consolidated ISBD a bit more, perhaps we can make a record with only a 140 characters! -----Justin L. TylerCatalogerDetroit Public [email protected]
--- On Thu, 7/15/10, Ed Jones <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ed Jones <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Consolidated ISBD and RDA double punctuation To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 1:11 PM A propos of nothing in particular, I would just like to say that I have always been in awe of ISBD punctuation. To anyone who understands the symbology--not that difficult--it conveys a vast amount of information in a minimal amount of space and with a minimal set of symbols, the semantics of a bibliographic description being established from the relative position of the symbols. Ed Jones National University (San Diego)
